Professor of English Sherry Linkon
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- Ford Foundation awards $350,000 to Center for Working-Class
Studies. This is the second time in three years the center
won a Ford Foundation grant.
- Chaney High School graduate, Charity Anne Pappas, is named
student trustee.
- Six faculty members garner awards from the Northeast Ohio
Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) – Stacey Lowery
Bretz, Annette M. Burden, Shirley M. Keller, Nancy Mosca,
Jennifer Pintar and David Pollock – for excellence
in teaching. Bretz, Burden, Keller and Pintar also receive
awards for outstanding teaching from Ohio magazine.
- YSU team scores $700,000 National Science Foundation grant
for AIDS-related research. The remarkable part of the story
is the team – Chet Cooper, Thomas Kim and Gary Walker
– had asked for $400,000, and the NSF provided an
additional $300,000.
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Chet Cooper, Thomas Kim and Gary Walker |
Charity Anne Pappas
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Nobel Laureate in physiology James Watson |
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- New director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity,
Jimmy Myers, is named. Myers was director of the Office of Equity
and Diversity at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
- Nobel Laureate in physiology James Watson serves as a speaker
in the Skeggs Lecture Series. Watson also held a question/answer
session with students, who filled a large lecture hall in Ward
Beecher.
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- The world’s oldest woman, Charlotte Benkner, receives supplemental
pension from YSU Foundation since the 1970s. Benkner’s husband,
Karl, was an engineering professor when YSU was the Youngstown Institute
of Technology from 1942 to 1962.
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